Writing as resistance : four women confronting the Holocaust : Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum / Rachel Feldhay Brenner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.

Introduction : meanings of resistance -- The dis/continued dialogue with the enlightenment -- The ongoing edification of the self -- The transcending consciousness of the other -- Between ecumenism and anti-Judaism -- Stein and Weil : diverging responses to Jewish and Christian traditions -- Stein and Weil : between self-affirmation and self-reunification -- Frank and Hillesum : identity and the search for God -- Where art and self meet -- Stein and Weil : displaced autobiographical selves -- Frank and Hillesum : the diarists as growing artists -- Gender consciousness in the rule of terror -- Stein and Weil : women's nature and destiny -- Toward intellectual and emotional maturity.